id: 130656 accession number: 1953.371 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.371 updated: 2025-02-09 01:54:46.320000 The Pie Wagon, c. 1926. Carl Gaertner (American, 1898–1952). Oil on canvas; unframed: 105.8 x 153 cm (41 5/8 x 60 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Carl Gaertner 1953.371 title: The Pie Wagon title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1926 creation date earliest: 1921 creation date latest: 1931 current location: creditline: Gift of Mrs. Carl Gaertner copyright: --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Cleveland School type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Carl Gaertner (American, 1898–1952) - artist A specialist in American scene subject matter, Cleveland-born Carl Gaertner exhibited an early aptitude for drawing. As a high-school student he studied mechanical design, but during his senior year he decided to make painting his primary avocation. In 1920 he enrolled at the Cleveland School of Art, graduating three years later after studying with Henry Keller and Frank Wilcox. In 1925 the school hired Gaertner to teach painting. During the 1920s and 1930s he went on summer painting excursions to Provincetown, Massachusetts, with Ora Coltman and George Adomeit. One of the most widely exhibited artists working in Cleveland, Gaertner showed at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1922–53), the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia (1924–52), the Art Institute of Chicago (1925–49), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (1943–48), and the National Academy of Design (1944–50). The Cleveland School of Art organized solo exhibitions of his paintings (1928, 1941), as did the Philadelphia Art Alliance (1948). In 1945 he began a long association with the Macbeth Galleries in New York. In 1952, after experiencing a severe headache while teaching at the art school, he went home and died unexpectedly of a brain hemorrhage.
Transformations in Cleveland Art (CMA, 1996), p. 228 --- measurements: Unframed: 105.8 x 153 cm (41 5/8 x 60 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower left: Carl Gaertner. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years opening date: 1982-12-22T05:00:00 The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 22, 1982-January 30, 1983). title: Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940 opening date: 1989-06-28T04:00:00 Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 28-September 10, 1989). title: Visions of America: Urban Realism 1900-1945 opening date: 1996-01-05T00:00:00 Visions of America: Urban Realism 1900-1945. Columbus Museum of Art (January 5-March 3, 1996); Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (April 5-June 2, 1996); The Butler Institute of American Art (organizer) (June 30-August 18, 1996). title: Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland opening date: 2000-02-18T00:00:00 Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (February 18-April 30, 2000). title: Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age opening date: 2004-03-28T00:00:00 Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 28-July 18, 2004). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (18 February-30 April 2000); exh. cat. no. 86, repr. p. 175, p. 272.', 'opening_date': '2000-02-18T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio (28 March-18 July, 2004); no exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '2004-03-28T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. "The Annual Exhibition: Foreword." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 16, no.5 (May 1926). page number: Mentioned: pp.118, 130. url: jstor.org/stable/i25137210 Cleveland Institute of Art. Carl Gaertner Memorial Exhibition; Catalogue of an Exhibition of Works by Carl Gaertner. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1953. page number: Mentioned: p.15, cat. 4 url: https://archive.org/details/CarlGaertner Kirkwood, Marie. "Gaertner's Art Reflects Spirit, Youth and Wisdom." Cleveland News, June 20, 1953. page number: Mentioned: p.7 url: Metzler, Paul B. "Carl Gaertner Memorial Show Opens Wednesday at Museum." Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 21, 1953. page number: Mentioned: p.24-D url: The Cleveland Institute of Art and The Cleveland Museum of Art. Carl Gaertner Memorial Exhibition; Catalogue of an Exhibition of Works by Carl Gaertner. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1953. page number: Mentioned: p.15 url: archive.org/details/CarlGaertner/mode/2up Clark, Edna Maria. Ohio Art and Artists. Richmond: Garrett and Massie, 1975. page number: Mentioned: p.360 url: Hoffman, Jay, Dee Driscole, and Mary Clare Zahler. A Study in Regional Taste: The May Show, 1919-1975. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1977. page number: Mentioned: p.77; Reproduced: p.49 url: Doezema, Marianne. American Realism and the Industrial Age. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. page number: Mentioned: pp.70,139; Reproduced: p.69 url: Dunbar, Mary. "The American Connection." Plain Dealer Magazine, October 19, 1980. page number: Mentioned and reproduced (unpaginated) url: The Cleveland Institute of Art and The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Institute of Art--100 Years: December 22, 1982-January 30, 1983, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p.29; Reproduced:p.17 url: Snyder, Jane. "Art museum, institute in joint celebration." Encore: The Chronicle-Telegram's Entertainment Magazine, January 7, 1983. page number: Mentioned and reproduced (unpaginated) url: Stearns, Robert. Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland. Minneapolis, MN: Arts Midwest, 2000. page number: Mentioned: p.272; Reproduced: p.175 url: Shearer, Christine Fowler, William H. Robinson, Michael D. Hall, Ann Caywood Brown, and Susan S. Leggett. Carl Gaertner: A Story of Earth and Steel. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Artists Foundation, 2000. page number: Mentioned: pp.8-9; Reproduced: p.9 url: Litt, Steven. "Grim visions: Work of once-popular artist re-emerges at Beck. The Plain Dealer, April 16, 2000. page number: Mentioned: p.1-I url: Ohio Historical Society and Ohio History Connection. Timeline: A Publication of the Ohio Historical Society, vol.20, no.2-3. Columbus, OH: The Ohio Historical Society, 2003. page number: Mentioned: p.3; Reproduced: pp.2-3 url: Channing, Laurence, "Before Neo: The May Show", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 45 no. 07, September 2005 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 3 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2005-07/page/2 Cole, Mark. "The Cleveland Gallery: Works by artists with ties to the city find a special home in the new east wing." The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 49 (September 2009). page number: Mentioned: p.7; Reproduced: p.6 url: Johnston, April Nehring. The Making of Cleveland's Artist: The Aesthetic and Cultural Politics of Boundary Crossing in the Industrial Landscape Paintings of Carl Gaertner, 1923-1952. MA Thesis, Washington University in St. Louis, 2019. page number: Mentioned: P. 56-59, 66-67; Reproduced: p. 57, fig. 3.5 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.371/1953.371_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.371/1953.371_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.371/1953.371_full.tif